This one is one that we decided to push out today because there are a few critical balance tweaks and bugfixes that players could really use. Mission System Preview In terms of the core feature of this new version, the missions: the general framework is complete and in place, but there is currently only one…
This one is actually two huge changes to the game. Continents Previously, the world was just one big landmass, with smaller pieces of ocean stuck here and there. It was consistent with the story mythos about a 4D-scrambled world, but it was only so interesting. And worst of all, it made the dividing lines for…
This one is another major game-flow changer. First off, I should note that there are also some important bugfixes in here, mostly relating to multiplayer. That’s why we went ahead and pushed this out in the middle of the day, rather than just waiting until later in the day when the rest of our new…
There is nothing subtle or incremental about this one. All the stats for characters and monsters have been reworked internally, and as part of that we’ve redone the general balance and flow of combat. Enemy spells tend to be a lot slower now, but more plentiful and more frequent. Trash mobs have a lot of…
This one has a whole list of fixes for multiplayer AVWW, to get rid of most of the small annoyances that have been reported. In other news, we have plans for how to deal with the one major annoyance in the next few days, so stay tuned on that. But we did want to give…
On Friday we announced the first public alpha of multiplayer, and feedback on that was very positive except for one major point, which was could not have been received more negatively. The point in question is the “multiverse thing,” which is detailed here.What Happens Next With “The Multiverse Thing”Firstly to go ahead with the most…
This one has been a long time coming — in the works since October 7th, in fact. Ever since that date, Keith has been working almost solely on getting multiplayer up and going, and so that’s caused basically nothing to happen with the macro game parts of the game for that large swathe of beta. …
This one is our first one since coming back from the Thanksgiving holiday — hope everyone else who celebrates it had a great holiday also. There are a number of important bugfixes to this one, including the “leveling up takes off my suit” bug that was causing a number of people to die a fiery…
This one has been really quite a long time coming, hasn’t it? Unusually so, for us. Well, it’s packed to the gills with internal enhancements to both the enemy AI and multiplayer. We’re really getting close to being able to start our first opt-in multiplayer public alpha testing, which is very exciting for us. That’s…
Well, I’d hoped to have the new AI system ready for a release today or even yesterday, but things don’t always go to plan. At first I was just going to make it so that enemies could do multiple types of magic attacks. Then I decided to wrap in some of their general logic so…
